February 28 sentencing for 'Dudus'
NEW YORK, USA — Former Tivoli Gardens enforcer Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is to be sentenced on February 28 in a Manhattan court.
View Article499 Cuban health professionals coming
JAMAICA yesterday signed an agreement with Cuba for the provision of 499 Cuban health professionals to work in Jamaica's public health sector over a two-year period.
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Kerry-Jo Lyn of the Digicel Foundation pets a chicken on a recent visit to the egg production facility run by the Mile Gully Entrepreneurial Woman's Group. Unemployed and struggling to feed their...
View ArticleStrong warning, firm pledge
OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Holness yesterday put the ruling People's National Party Government on notice, signalling that his party would be acting as a watchdog to "ferret out" and expose any form of...
View ArticleCops seek suspects in politician son's killing
HAMPTON, St James — The St James police have released the names of two suspects in Sunday night's murder of 31-year-old Tayon Colomathi — son of well-known St James politician Donald Colomathi — who...
View ArticleThis Day in History - January 18
Today is the 18th day of 2012. There are 348 days left in the year.
View ArticleProud dad DK joined by daughter in Gordon House
Dr D K Duncan had reason to be doubly proud yesterday as both himself and his daughter Imani Duncan-Price were sworn in as Parliamentarians.
View ArticleSUNY professor for SALISES seminar
PROFESSOR of education at the State University of New York (SUNY) Pedro Noguera will be the featured presenter at 'Education for Social Development' seminar being hosted Thursday by the Sir Arthur...
View ArticleWigless judges mark opening of appellate court
THE Court of Appeal on Monday opened without the six justices donning the customary judicial wigs. The move is a sign of what is to come when the headgear is abandoned throughout the entire judiciary...
View ArticleDengue alert project creates jobs for Westmoreland youth
A total of 73 young persons were recruited by the Westmoreland Parish Council late last year to work with the parish's Public Health Department on the Dengue Fever Alert Programme.
View ArticleShanna Campbell ready to get on with life
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Seventeen-year-old Shanna Campbell is now experiencing significant improvements after spending most of last year battling a stage two brain tumour.
View ArticleFerguson to address specialist training for public sector nurses
HEALTH Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson is to address the vexed issue of the lack of specialist training for nurses in the public sector before his administration's first one hundred days in office is out.
View ArticleParliamentarians pledge co-operation
LEADERS of Government and Opposition Business in both Houses of Parliament yesterday buried the hatchet, presenting a unified front to the media for the co-operation they said would be the hallmark of...
View ArticleBritish scientists say Caribbean yields deepest ever 'black smoker' vents
LONDON, England (CMC) — British scientists say a group of volcanic vents on the Caribbean seafloor are the deepest discovered to date, adding that another field of vents on a nearby submerged mountain...
View ArticleChild abuse reports on the rise
THE number of reports of child abuse received by the Office of the Children's Registry (OCR) has grown by more than 1,000 per cent between the registry's establishment in 2007 and last year when it...
View ArticleRousing welcome for new PNP Gov't, support for Opposition
Victorious People's National Party (PNP) parliamentarians yesterday received a rousing welcome from hundreds of jubilant party supporters as they gathered on Duke Street for the traditional march into...
View ArticleAmerican on fraud rap denied bail
SAMUEL Speranza, the American national implicated in three fraudulent land deals worth J$1 billion, was yesterday denied the opportunity to leave the country to attend a wind energy conference and deal...
View ArticleChallenges and realities in UK/Caricom economic ties
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — When the latest United Kingdom/Caribbean Minis-terial Forum begins in Grenada this Friday, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague should...
View ArticleDead toddler's parents could face charges
THE parents of the two-year-old child, whose decomposing body was found stuffed in a suitcase Sunday at their home in Kingston, could be charged under the Child Care and Protection Act.
View ArticleCurfews imposed in Corporate Area and St James
SEVERAL curfews have been imposed in the Corporate Area and St James. The curfews became effective at 6:00 pm yesterday and will remain in effect until 6:00 pm Thursday.
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